West Germany: Hot Route in the Cold War

Flying some of the cold war's hottest routes, Pan American World
Airways meets political turbulence as often as the natural kind.
Pan Am hardly inaugurated its new thrice-weekly New York-Berlin
service before Moscow thundered that the nine-hour jet flights
violated four-power agreements on Berlin and warned darkly that it
could not be responsible for any dire consequences. Predictably, the
airline kept right on flying last week, and the Communists did nothing.

Although the Russians have long harassed Pan Am's flights from eight
West German cities through the 110-mile air corridor to Berlin, its
Berlin run has...